as white as ashes(miàn sè rú tǔ)

as white as ashes

Describe the extreme of panic. The same as "face like Earth".

Idiom explanation

[idiom]: face like earth [Pinyin]: Mi à ns è R ú t à [explanation]: describes the extreme of panic. The same as "face like Earth".

Idioms and allusions

[source]: in Ming Shi Naian's outlaws of the marsh, it's the first time: "it's so shocking that Tai Wei Hong's eyes are wide open, he doesn't know what to do, and his face looks like earth. When he runs to the corridor, he sees the real man complaining endlessly." In the second episode of West Lake, the reincarnation of the king of Wu and Yue, suojiangshan: "Dong Chang looks like the earth. All the soldiers look at each other face to face

Discrimination of words

[example]: Apprentice Taomi River, see ~. Liu Fu's "Apprentice bitter" poem [usage]: used as attribute, object, adverbial; refers to panic.

Chinese PinYin : miàn sè rú tǔ